“Love Letters from Cuckold Creek” is an intimate exploration of the subtle nuances and machinations of everyday life.
LB Sedlacek
Amazon USA“Love Letters from Cuckold Creek”
By Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
- Publisher : Cyberwit.net
- Publication date : November 28, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 70 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9363548198
- ISBN-13 : 978-9363548190
- Item Weight : 3.35 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.18 x 8.5 inches
Review by LB Sedlacek
“Love Letters from Cuckold Creek” is an intimate exploration of the subtle nuances and machinations of everyday life. The book is bursting with an imaginative resonance. The poems touch on nature, longing, remembrance, and growth.
The tone leans towards the lyrical offering readers musical like metaphors with a strong voice. The book as a whole can read like a personal but rooted confession or a poignant meditation that seems to reach a cognitive recognition and overall vulnerable reflection.
The author’s writing style stems with a rhythmic flow. Verses appear to unfold with a beautiful cadence.
There is an impressive variety of themes that invite readers to linger upon each poem to reflect. This shows the careful attention Ferragut has placed upon each word chosen, each line throughout the collection.
From the poem “Near to Life”
for Venus
“We walk slow on your bum knee
take breaks to tease out your girl
crazy, my boy crazy, weight
of absence that tasks
our joints and always
the artists with bum hearts.”
The author’s poems feel conversational, flowing with an easy and understandable rhythm on the page. The poems are rich and introspective and they delve into ordinary reflective moments.
Farragut takes small details weaving them together into a powerful total poem. This approach can be subtle but creates an overall grounded and balanced narrative with her voice breaking the surface, so to speak, to reinforce overall ideas.
From the poem “My Plan to Play Guitar Well Before I Die”
“Intros speak in wind
and waters, Soar
or swim before the flood.
Sometimes I sink, savor
even gravity.”
This poem was my favorite in the collection. I love to play guitar, just for fun, and Ferragut effortlessly captures the musical magic of guitar strings and what can spring forth from them.
Her poems are tender but hearty. They resonant with a gorgeous delight.
These poems will stay with the reader well after finishing each poem. You will welcome the poetical sojourn that lives in these pages.
~LB Sedlacek is the author of several books of poetry including “Unresponsive Sky,” “Poem Medicine,” “The Poet Next Door,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” and “Ghost Policy.” Her short stories books include “The Jackalope Committee & Other Stories” and “The Renovator & Motor Addiction.” Her poem novel is “The Blue Eyed Side.”